MA-Thesis: A study on common gramatical errors in paragraph writing of non - english major students at hoa binh teacher’s training college
MA-Thesis A study on common gramatical errors in paragraph writing of non - english major students at hoa binh teacher’s training college studies common grammatical errors in paragraph writing committed by non- English major students at Hoa Binh teachers’ training college and the causes of these errors. To achieve the desired aims of current study, the author combined both qualitative and quantitative methods, including the instrument namely students’ writing analysis.
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1. Preface
1.1 Rationale
Nowadays, English is the most popular foreign language taught in Vietnam. It helps Vietnam closer to other countries in the world and is the key to access the latest achievements in science and technology. Therefore, learning English is essential for Vietnamese to satisfy their needs in modern society
1.2 Aims of the study
The aim of the study is to help the non - English major students at Hoa Binh teacher’s training college overcome the common grammatical errors in writing English paragraphs
1.3 The research questions
To reach the aim mentioned above, the research questions are put forward as below:
- What are the common grammatical errors committed by non – English major students in writing English paragraph?
- What are the major causes of committing these errors made by non – English major students in writing English paragraph?
1.4 Scope of the study
The study focuses on investigating grammatical errors which non – English students at Hoa Binh teachers’ training college often commit in writing short paragraphs. However, the researcher does not cover all types of errors; she only analyzes some most common errors under the study of students’ writing. Afterwards, the researcher proposes some suggestions which help to improve teaching and learning writing skill
2. Content
2.1 Literature review
An overview of grammar
An overview of writing
An overview of paragraph
An overview of errors in foreign language teaching
Error analysis
Previous studies
Summary
2.2 Research methodology
Participants
Methods of the study
Data collection instrument
Data collection procedure
Data analysis
Summary
2.3 Findings and discussion
Findings
Discussion
Summary
3. Conclusion
Firstly, after analyzing students’ writings, the most frequent grammatical errors types committed by students were revealed. Among eight types of errors including passive voice, verb tense and form, subject - verb agreement, word order, prepositions, articles, plurality and pronouns, the researcher found that the greatest numbers of errors belonged to four groups namely, verb tenses and forms, subject – verb agreement, prepositions, and plurality. Verb errors included simple present tense errors, simple past tense errors, present perfect tense errors and past perfect tense errors. Verb form errors consisted of gerund and infinitive errors. Subject – verb
4. References
Abeywickrama, R. (2010). An Analysis of Errors in English Writing of SinhalaSpeaking Undergraduates. Abaramuwa University Journal, 9 (1), 97-11
Abushihab, I. (2014). An analysis of grammatical errors in writing made by Turkish learners of English as a foreign language. International Journal of Linguistics, 6(4), 213-223.
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